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b.f.o.q.
b.f.o.q. Short for the phrase "bona fide occupational qualification," in the employment discrimination context a B.F.O.Q. may absolve an employer from liability for discrimination when there is
Q.B.
Q.B. Queen's Bench
Issue
arising from lands or tenements, amerciaments, or fines. (3) Event, consequence, evacuation, sending forth. (4) The point in question, as the conclusion of the pleadings between contending parties in an action, when one side affirms and the … parents. The word 'issue' in a will was either a word of purchase or of limitation, as would best answer the intention of the testator; and for the effect of the word in the case of a
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Influencing the thinking
matter of putting a value on assets and partly a matter of arithmetical calculation, Reg. v. Legal Aid Board, Ex parte Parsons, 1997 All ER 347. See also Reg. v. Legal Aid Appeal Committee, Exp. McCormick (Q.B.D.),
Material
another, Reg. v. Legal Aid Appeal Committee Exp. McCormick (Q.B.D.), (2000) 1 WLR 1804 Material, means 'fundamental', vital, basic, cardinal, central, crucial, decisive, essential, pivotal, indispensable, elementary or primary, Burton's Legal Thesaurus (3rd Edn.), p. 349. Material,
Si as pro auro veneat non valet
if bronze is sold for gold it is invalid. The maxim was discussed by the Divisional Court of Q.B. in Kennedy v. Panama & Mail Co., 1867 LR 2 QB 580 (588
Public prosecutor
of Public Prosecutions' may be appointed with six assistants, and such an officer (the late J.B. Maule, Esq., Q.C.), with one assistant, was appointed shortly after the commencement of the Act in 1880; but the Prosecution of
absorb
by the company] b : to lessen the tax liability for [has other losses to the income "D. Q. Posin"]
Abjuration
Abjuration, means a renouncing by oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5. Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath.
Chattels or catals
catals [fr. Catalla, Lat.; chatel, Fr.; chaptel, Old Fr.]. The word 'catalla' among the Normans primarily signified only beasts of husbandry or, as they are still called, cattle, but in a secondary sense the term was extended
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